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Re: [OM] EVF Rant (Was: For Ken: finally an E1 upgrade)

Subject: Re: [OM] EVF Rant (Was: For Ken: finally an E1 upgrade)
From: Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:22:50 -0500
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012, at 03:07 PM, Dawid Loubser wrote:

> When I look through
> a camera viewfinder, I don't want to fly a video game, I want to compose
> a picture in the context of reality. I want to move my frame around in
> the beautiful, organic, analogue realm of the photons that are reflected
> off my subject. I want my eyes to experience the same, actual
> wavelengths of light. Therein lies the emotional connection with the
> image about to be made. I don't want those photons captured, quantized,
> processed, amplified, and re-imagined as a crude grid of luminous pixels
> at a woefully inadequate framerate.

I have no problem with EVFs, but that was so eloquent that, because I am
not using an EVF camera currently, I feel a bit proud of myself.

Joel W.

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